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Environmental Ethics : What Really Matters, What Really Works

ISBN: 9780195139099 | 0195139097
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/22/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
Featuring sixty-two accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works addresses both of the principal areas of inquiry in the field: the exploration of morality from an environmentalperspective and the analysis of the current state of our environment. Aiming to determine what issues really matter, the first section of the book responds to such questions as: What is value? What types of things have value? Is the value of a human being fundament... MORE
Acknowledgmentsix
Why Environmental Ethics?xi
Elizabeth Willott
David Schmidtz
I WHAT REALLY MATT... MORE
The Dawn of Reverence
3(12)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: A Fierce Green Fire
3(1)
A Moment on the Earth
4(2)
Gregg Easterbrook
Thinking Like a Mountain
6(1)
Aldo Leopold
The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis
7(8)
Lynn White
Animal Liberation and the Land Ethic
15(30)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Practical Ethics
15(2)
All Animals Are Equal
17(10)
Peter Singer
The Land Ethic
27(6)
Aldo Leopold
Values in and Duties to the Natural World
33(5)
Holmes Rolston
Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce
38(7)
Mark Sagoff
Extending the Realm of Rights
45(37)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Natural Rights
45(1)
Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects
46(4)
Christopher D. Stone
The Rights of Animals
50(8)
Joel Feinberg
The Good of Trees
58(13)
Robin Attfield
Duties Concerning Islands
71(11)
Mary Midgley
Species Equality and Respect for Nature
82(22)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Where Do We Draw the Line?
82(1)
The Ethics of Respect for Nature
83(13)
Paul W. Taylor
Are All Species Equal?
96(8)
David Schmidtz
Environmental Holism
104(54)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Keeping Our Hands Clean
104(1)
How to Worry About Endangered Species
105(3)
Tom Regan
Biocentric Individualism
108(12)
Gary Varner
Deep Ecology
120(6)
Bill Devall
George Sessions
Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology
126(11)
Murray Bookchin
Why Do Species Matter?
137(8)
Lilly-Marlene Russow
Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism
145(13)
Elliott Sober
How Wild Does Nature Have to Be?
158(30)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: An Allegory
158(1)
What's Wrong with Plastic Trees?
159(13)
Martin H. Krieger
The Call of the Wild
172(6)
Eric Katz
Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature
178(10)
Andrew Light
Rethinking the Good Life
188(43)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Voluntary Simplicity
188(1)
Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments
189(10)
Thomas E. Hill
Redefining the Good Life in a Sustainable Society
199(6)
Lester W. Milbrath
Do We Consume Too Much?
205(16)
Mark Sagoff
Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of Countermodernity
221(10)
Freya Mathews
Ecofeminism in Theory and Practice
231(34)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Dichotomies
231(1)
Feminism and Ecofeminism
232(2)
Kristen Hessler
Elizabeth Willott
The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
234(14)
Karen J. Warren
Women, Poverty, and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist
248(7)
Gita Sen
Women Farmers of India's Deccan Plateau: Ecofeminists Challenge World Elites
255(10)
V. Rukmini Rao
II WHAT REALLY WORKS? ESSAYS ON HUMAN ECOLOGY
Human Population
265(19)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Population Bomb
265(1)
Future Generations
266(1)
Joel Feinberg
Population, Development, and the Environment
267(7)
Clark Wolf
Recent Population Trends
274(10)
Elizabeth Willott
What It Takes To Preserve Wilderness
284(46)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: South Africa
284(1)
Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
285(8)
Ramachandra Guha
Headaches and Heartaches: The Elephant Management Dilemma
293(13)
Ian J. Whyte
At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
306(14)
Raymond Bonner
When Preservationism Doesn't Preserve
320(10)
David Schmidtz
Sustainable Use and Institutional Structure
330(43)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Logic of the Commons
330(1)
The Tragedy of the Commons
331(10)
Garrett Hardin
Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights
341(7)
Martin J. Bailey
Environmental Lessons
348(13)
Carol Rose
The Institution of Property
361(12)
David Schmidtz
Poverty as an Environmental Problem
373(52)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Zambia
373(1)
Living on a Lifeboat
374(12)
Garrett Hardin
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
386(8)
Peter Singer
Global Environment and International Inequality
394(10)
Henry Shue
Feeding People Versus Saving Nature
404(13)
Holmes Rolston III
Natural Enemies: An Anatomy of Environmental Conflict
417(8)
David Schmidtz
Vanishing Resources
425(29)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Cities
425(1)
Designing Cities as if They Were Ethical Choices
426(4)
Jessica Woolliams
Why the Good News Shouldn't Scare You
430(4)
Gregg Easterbrook
The Doomslayer
434(9)
Ed Regis
The Good News, in Perspective
443(11)
Paul Ehrlich
Anne Ehrlich
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy
454(39)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Optimal Pollution
454(1)
Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique
455(7)
Steven Kelman
Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended
462(4)
Herman B. Leonard
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Moral Pluralism and the Environment
466(13)
Andrew Brennan
A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis
479(14)
David Schmidtz
Environmentalism in Practice
493(1)
Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Ethics of Confrontation
493(1)
The Environmentalists' Dilemma: Dollars and Sand Dollars
494(7)
Bryan G. Norton
Fragile Freedoms
501(4)
Bryan G. Norton
Therapeutic Nihilism and Environmental Management
505(19)
Eugene C. Hargrove
Mad Cowboy: The Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
524(5)
Howard F. Lyman
Glen Merzer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
529(6)
Paul Watson
The Missing Shade of Green
535(11)
Kate Rawles
Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind
546(10)
J. Baird Callicott
Taking Environmental Ethics Public
556
Andrew Light

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